Bake Your Own: Make Your Wallet and Your Sweet Tooth Happy

By Mrs. SPF

I have a sweet tooth but I don`t like eating ingredients I cant pronounce. For me the best way to do that and on a budget is to bake my own treats. And I know people often say “I don’t have time to bake”, I say it myself sometimes but then I remember that if I make a big batch of goodies, freeze half, have the other half as snacks in my lunch then next time that sweet tooth is crying out, I have something on hand, no work required to make my sweet tooth happy!

If you are really stretched for time, especially around this holiday season, organize a baked goods exchange with some friends and/or colleagues. You each make 3 dozen (so for say 6 friends, each person gets ½ dozen) of your favorite cookie, square, etc, then get together, exchange the treats and everyone walks away with a couple of different goodies! I was introduced to this idea in an office I worked in a couple of years ago and think its a great idea! It is especially great to do around the holidays. You can show up to Christmas dinner with tins full of a variety of scrumptious goodies and let everyone believe you are a domestic goddess!

Bake your own … granola bars, muffins, cookies, you name it!!!

Green and health reasons to bake your own – make that sweet tooth happy:

no extra shipment (in addition to the ingredients) of product across the country)

ingredient control – we don’t add trans fats

Financial reasons to bake your own:

Cost to make your own oatmeal chocolate chip muffins

Ingredient

Cost Basis

Quantity

Costs

bag of oats

$5 for 2.25 kg

112.5 g

$0.25

chocolate chips

$0.55 for 100 g

81 g

$0.44

egg (local, free range)

$2.85 for 12 eggs

1 egg

$0.24

brown sugar

$2 for 1 Kg

165 g

$0.33

flour

$5 for 10 kg

125 g

$0.08

baking powder

$2 for 450g

16 g

$0.07

melted butter (local)

$4.50 for 2 cups

1/2 cup

$1.12

TOTAL

$2.53

Total = $2.53 for 12 muffins! Where we live you usually cant get 6 muffins for less than $5 in the grocery store. So even if we made these muffins with all organic ingredients which would double the cost, we would still be saving money!

So, for me personally the financial incentive is a great one, and of course avoiding those weird sounding ingredients, but the best part is the wonderful smell that fills our house while baking and nothing beats fresh from the oven muffins to go with your afternoon tea on a cold winter day.

Please share your baking creations and habits so we can all benefit from your great ideas!

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Oh my, they look delicious! I have never actually baked muffins even though I make bread. I stayed with a woman who baked organic muffins for a local health store and no muffin I have ever eaten since can touch those! Bran muffin with cinnamon and apple was divine.

Making muffins or cookies on your own is so easy and doesn’t really take that much time (maybe 30 minute to an hour max?). I like how our society is shifting back towards natural food items and we are realizing that packaging, preserved foods are terrible for our health!

Hiya FB! Yep, we’re Canuck thru and true! Mrs. SPF has been reading the comments on her post and it is great she is getting so many! Her baking is superb. Now only if I had more of a sweet tooth … Thanks for checking out our site, i’ll check yours out soon!

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